Literatura, Espectadores y Cinefilia Contemporanea en Latinoamerica
Smith, Paul Julian
City University of New York
2020
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Ph.D.
City University of New York
2020
The arrival of cinema in Latin America quickly produced an intermedial cultural landscape. To this day, experimental authors in the Hemisphere and the Caribbean write cinegraphic fiction as a way to deal with film's socio-cultural repercussions. My work addresses the question of how cinema transforms and subverts the creation of fictional narratives in the last five decades. By considering a corpus of post-1968 literary works in Latin America, I argue that contemporary cinegraphic fiction, a concept I coined, shed light on filmic discourses, platforms, and artifacts and transpose film language into literary texts. Intending to rethink polycentric film production and reception, I examine intermedial literary methods, spectatorship, and cinephilia in Latin America. My research uses film theory alongside literary criticism and cultural analysis to explore how cinegraphic storytelling facilitates a commentary on race, gender, class, migrant lives, media, and technology.